MARRIAGE AND THE SEX PROBLEM
By Dr. F. W. Foerster. Frederick A. Stokes Co. 225 pp. Price $1.35: by mail of The Survey $1.44.
This is a translation of a work entitled Sexualethik und Sexualpadagogik by Dr. F. W. Foerster of Zürich, Switzerland. The translator supplies a brief statement of Foerster’s personal development and his final adoption of a positive ethical and religious philosophy akin to the new idealism of Prof. Rudolph Eucken. The book devotes considerable space to the theories of Ellen Key, Freud and Forel. On its positive side it advocates undeviating adherence to the traditional point of view in matters of sex and marriage. A somewhat pedantic touch results from the translator’s use of “ethic” in preference to the more familiar “ethics” as an equivalent for the German Ethik.
Katharine Anthony.